37signals
An annotated collection of 3 books & essays on 37signals, spanning 2006 to 2022. Featuring works by 37signals, Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.
Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application
37signals' original book, released free in 2006, that codified the early philosophy of the company: small teams, short cycles, simple products, no meetings, shipped software over polished presentations. The book predates…
Rework
Fried and DHH compressed 37signals' operating philosophy into short, aphoristic chapters — the book's format is a deliberate rejection of the business-book norm. The arguments are contrarian in a calculated way: no meeti…
We Don't Sell You
One of 37signals' numbered manifesto pages — a short statement that compresses the company's business model into a single principle: they sell software to customers, not customers to advertisers. The distinction is small…